Welcome to the Anxiety Slayer series. Our mission is to assist you with creating more peace and tranquility in your life

through anxiety release exercises and supportive tools created to slay your

anxiety.

In the last 24 hours I've encountered two slightly stressed out men who have a habit of repeatedly scrunching up their face and rubbing their forehead vigorously when talking about things that are causing them some

mental challenge.

And I've been watching them do this and it looks kind of weird, but no doubt it's serving

some unconscious purpose for them in trying to reduce some stress and it got me

thinking what are we all doing when we feel stressed and the sensation comes to

our body but we're not consciously aware of it so we're doing something to try and

discharge it but we're not actually tackling it directly so the whole thing remains

unconscious. The people around us may have awareness of it, particularly in these two cases because the facial expressions involved were quite interesting, but do we have awareness of what we're doing?

So I just wanted to share that thought in this

podcast and encourage us all, remind us all to take time to know when you're

stressed and actively discharge it from your system. We can do that by routinely

making space to let off steam every hour, stop, take five deep breaths, take a walk, even if just for a few minutes, every day.

Fill your feet on the ground, let your shoulders, neck, relax.

You can put reminder notes on the fridge, light switches, different doors, different places, the dashboard in the car, to remind yourself to drop your shoulders, relax your jaw, and just release the grip, release the tension in your life.

And maybe add a little self-care ritual to the end of your day where before you settle down to sleep,

you discharge whatever stress and tension you've accumulated in the day,

just take a few minutes out to use one of our guided relaxation audio, a favorite meditation,

piece of music, breathing exercise, whatever helps you relax and wind down

and just quickly process through your day and settle it before you drift off to sleep.

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